The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-22 00:00:00

MONEY XARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Business continues very active in the general discount market, and as 6 per cent. is the lowest rate the icquiries at the Bank have increased. Several unfavourable alterations are exhibited in the Bank of England return. There is a falling off in the reserves of notes and bullion consequent upon a demand for both from the agricultural dis tricts, a brisk commercial inquiry, and large ex ports of gold. The repayment of loans has caused a considerable reduction in the other securities. Annexed are the particulars— Active Circulation .. £21,795,555 Increase 223,170 Bullion .. 13,1'71,5 D acrease. 529,551 Rest .. 3,468,793 Increase 06 06 00 00 57,722 Public Deposits .. 06 00 4 , 462 , 490 Decrease 221,313 Other Deposits.. 13,408,675 Decrease .. 1,674,071 Seven Day and other Bills .. 607,133 Increase .. .. • . 18,517 Government Securities .. 11,092,125 Increase .. • • • . 80,000 Other Securities 19,261,960 Decrease .. .. 1,086,424 Notes Unemployed 5,410,695 Decrease .. .. 665,595 The Bank of France return, on the contrary, is on the whole satisfactory. There is an increase of £116,000 in the bullion ; £BOO,OOO in the Treasury balances, and of £BOO,OOO in the current accounts. The other items show a diminution of £1,115,000 in the discounts, of £48,000 in the advances, and of £176,000 in the rotes. At the meeting of the Midland Banking Com. 1361 °Y• held this day—Mr H. Et.. Hankey in the chair --the report, which was unanimously adopted, r ecommended the payment of a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum free of income tax. At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Alliance Bank to-day—Mr J. N. Daniel in the chair—the report, which was adopted, recommended the payment of a dividend of 10 per cent. on the paid up capital of the company in the proportion in which it has been called up, viz , 255. per share on the 20,000 original shares, and 12s. 6d. per share on the 10,000 new shares. The Unio❑ Bank of Ireland held its third ordis nary meeting of shareholders to-day. The report, which was adopted, recommended a dividend of 10s. per share, free of income tax (being rather more than 4; per cent, per annum). The shares of the Robertsfors Iron Works Company were in demand at 1 prem., and closed at li prem. Two o'CLocK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 15c. The English Stock Market has shown symptoms of further depression this morning. The Funds have declined another per cent., which, with the that occurred yesterday, gives a fall of f i per cent. within two days. The cause now operating ad• versely against the firmness of quotations is the idea that money will become dearer through the unfavourable specie movement to the Continent. Consols for money are 901 ; and for the account, 90 t 4 ; the New Threes and Reduoed Annuities are 89i ; and India 5 per Cents., 1041 ; India Stock is 215. Foreign Stocks have not varied to any material extent, but prices tend downwards. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 701; do. Consolides 501 ; Mexican, 28/ 291 ; do. New, 26} ; Greek 241 i ; Spanish Passive, 281 f ; Portuguese, 481 ; 67 1 d ; and the Confe&rate Loan, 76 77. A flatter tone has prevailed in the Railway Share Market, and prices have in several instances given w 4 Y. Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Great Eastern, and North Western have declined 52 .; Brighton, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, arid Midland, 10s. ; South Eastern, 15s. ; and Furth Eastern (Berwick), LI. Ia the Foreign and Colonial lines there has been little or no change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in some in- Stanees rat h er flatter. London and Westminster have declined to 1001 ; Metropolitan, to 271 4 ; London Joint Stock, to 511 ; Crystal Palace Stock, to 33.1. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do Account, Aug. 9 3 per Cent. R e d uce d New 3 p er C ent. B9l New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891 Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire eth Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — I Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Mtaeh. J une. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3& 3 per Cent - Do £5OO Do £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stu, 51 per Ct. Do Account .. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874 215 Do Account — Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 • Do Account — FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Do 1859 Brazilian 6 per Cent Do 4t per Cont., 1852-58-60 Do 1863 B7t Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) O .than 6 per Cent. — Do 41 pet Cent., Colombian 6 per tie Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Cent. 1864 Eluador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l2l Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Egyptian 7 per Cent — Do, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Do Account Do Coupons Do Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. .. Do 1839 a n d 1859 Italian 5 per Ceiat.(Maremmana Railway ; 731. Mexican 3 per Cent .... Do Account Do 6 per Cent, 1864 Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis Do 6 per Cen.. Anglo-French Ditto Scrip, £23 paid Moorish imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Cent. - Do Deterred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) — Peruvian 4i per Cent : , no 3 per Wnt. (Uribarren) — Do 4i per Cent,, 1862 Do Account — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account .. --- Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'2... Do Account 4Bl. Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 41 per Cent., 1850 .. Do 3 er Cent 18.59 1) ..... 1)0 5 - per Cent, 1862 Do A ng l o -D a t c h Do Scrip, £3O paid Sardini an per Cent 13 0 Account 'lle/lion 3 per Cent o Account ** 5Ol 1 D 0 New Deferred ** n o Account 44 281 11 ,) Passiv e Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded LO ACeount ........ 4 per d:nt .. Tuscrip, £6O p a id Pra SDc 6 Do Accouer p Cent 1854 nt .. DO6 per Cent:lBs; 711 .i/o Account ............ Do £lOO Bond. Do 6 per Cent. Do Account • 1)0 .. DoLtuuis a Do Guaranteed, 4 per •Cent::: Venezuela 3 per Cvnt. .. • • Do Account ...... 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account ..................... Scrip £3O paid ................. die Do 11 per Cent ...................... Payable in London Dividends on the above Austrian, 5 per Cent., E. 10 Florins. .Belgian. 4i per Cent., Es. 251. ........ bo Account ........................ Dutch 2i per Cent., Ea. 12 Guil ........ Do 4 per Cent. Certificates ......... 100 Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 franem.. Da A.ccuant rrench R ented, 2 per Cent.... • .... 67/ - Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 4f per Ct. Ex. Piednioutese, 5 per Cent,, Ex. 25f ... 4s. —. — TWO O'CLOCK Consols Money 90k ba Account.", o. •It 90 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing • h arL 100 &tlantic &at Lawrene, all 59 61 60 skj Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Inn 100 102 103 101/ Gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. New -- 20 Do. E. 5hare5......... 74 par 1 p 004 Bunalo and Late Huron all at 51 10 Do. Preference ...... all 8 9 , j Buffalo,Brant,&G °aria 10 , 1 77 82 6 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 187:. t O O Do. do. July 1, 187, lOC 77 8 'OO ao. do. Juue 1, is: 100 77 82 at Cleutta.&S. Eastn. (Lin 100 99 100 at Cape Town & Dock Seri ; 100 15 97 stock h:aatn. Bengal gu. 6p. r 100 104 106 steek East Indian. go. sp. c. 100 It 2 1 , -3 1021 2 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 15 f p 20 Do. do. H do. .. 15 / stook Grand Trunk of Canada lut, 19 20 100 Do. Ist Pnl. Bonds.. all 72 74 100 Do. Co. deferred...... all 61 63 100 Do. 2d Pre!. Bonds.. all 66 68 100 Do. do. deferred-- all 55 57 100 Do. 3d Clef. stock ... all 48 51 1 00 Do. do. deferred...... all 43 45 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock. all 29 31 100 Do. do. deferred.-- all 27 29 stook Gtlndiaremn.gua.sp.o 100 103 104 20 Do. New gna. sp. 0... 12 p Do. January, 1862 stook Gt. Sonth.of lndia(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent 100 100 102 204 Gt. W. of Canada Share's all 9/ 10 20 4 Do. New " 0 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with% opt all 89 61 834 100 Do. 56 p. c. do. '77-8.. all 82 81 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 d ip 2 } stook Madras. guar., 5p.0. .. 100 100 lo 1004 stook k Do. 41 p. o. Extension 100 113 05 stoo Do. 4A do .. 100 1.0 0 89 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 nook Itelb.Corp. 6p. a. Bnds. 100 50 Slelb. & llobson's Bay. all 58 60 100 Do. 7 p.c. tlortg. Bds. all 20 Newßr urismok Canda Class A. and B. all 3 6 N.lll.C'daB po lst pf bds 100 82 84 stock Scinde ..) (100 1014 10'4 stock Do. Delhi... I • ' 100 100 101 20 Do. do •• • ; 21 I 2 pr 4p st Do. Punjaub .0 all 100 101 Do. Do. !,1; 1 , rook Do. Indus. St. Flo. k • 10 0 03 95 , COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 6 p.c.J &J ul) 1877-84 * 100 99 101 99 Do. Rp. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 100 iO3 Do. 6p. o. Mar. & Sept 100 100 103 Do. Ip. o. Jan.&July. 101 88 ;0 I Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 88 10 Cape G.Hope, 6p o,187) 100 104 108 Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 107 109 Do. 1891 100 119 111 - !Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 107 'lO9 :Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 111 113 !Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 105 107 'Natal Gov. 6 per cont.. 100 l'l6 108 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. J a.dr.Jul} 100 91 1 01 Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. G ov. 6 p 3.,18,,, 100 97 Q 9 Do. sp. to Lit 100 97 98 98 Do. d0.,1888 & upwds 100 074 9 8 4 98 New Zealand 6 p cent 100 !Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. 0 sterling, 1875 lOO 100 102 Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 103 103 - S. Aus G6p.e.1878.& up lOO 105 108 - iVlo.Gov. 6 p.o. Ja.6rJuly 100 - 10 6 p.a. An.&061... 100 110 111 110 BRITISH MINES. 2 I Consol. Gold I 4 id !iiitord Amalgamated 33 34 Devon G. Con.. (f avist ) 1 576 085 !East Bassett (Illogan) 30 66 68 I East Clogau Gold Ltd I East Caradon ...... 274 284 - East Cant Brea 3.4.0 7 75 !E. W'lltussel (Tavistk ) 8.13.0 44 5 5 - Gam..tSt.AuDyn(Gwen 1;84 , 6 8 !Great South Tolgus 17s 25 •/1 !G. Wheal Vor (11elston 40 28 f,.0 !Grenville 6.16.! 61 75 I Rev:Ws-Foot 8.12 38 40 illingston Downs 4.18.0 32 45 !Lady Bertha - Ilargaret (iJny Lelant 8 10 Harke Valley.. 4 NI yndy Iron Ore (Lim ' 25 14 1 d New Setun l9l 75 85 -- North Downs 2l 11 2 - N.Wh'i Basset (111o4an 3.1.0 14 11 North Wheal Crotty t'ar Consols (st. Blazey 20 t'rovidenee ( Uny Lelnt., 10.0.7 39 41 South Caradon(St.Cleer, 15 455 475 S. Cam Brea (Illogan) — head Fran. (Illogan 118.18.9 45 60 - Stray Park fmmar Silv.lz Lead Alin. - fin Croit )7 13 West Basset (Illo , zan) ll 9 10 W C' radon (Liskeard, 5 15 17 West Set= I Whee 1 Basset (Mogan)! 51 875 911 !Wheal Buller(ltedrutli) 10 27 29 - Wheal Kitty (U.LelanV; 2.0.6 - !WhealLud , Ott 1 1 3.5. i 1/ 2 —11.1 r MaryAnn(Men.)! 13 15 I Wheal 3eton 5Bl 225 230 _ Wheal Trelawney (Lis ) 7 19 21 I 17heal Union I 3.17 I 14 2 LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF DIVORCE. LEY V. LEY AND JORDEN. This was a suit instituted by Captain Ley, the son of a gentleman who held a situation as clerk in the House of Commons, for a divorce, on the ground of his wife's adultery with the corespondent, who had formerly been member of a firm of solicitors, and who was represented to be a person of considerable means, and occupying a London residence in Curzon-street. The parties were married in 1853 and cohabited until February last, when the eloped with the co-respondent, with whom she beoame ac quainter] about five years ago while she and her husband were living at Dulwich with his mother, Lady Francis Lay. Letters were put in from the respondent and co-re spondent, which lett no doubt as to their criminality, and the wife expressed herself deeply gratified for the kindness she had received from her husband from the time of their marriage down to the time wbea she de serted him. Ir w:is also proved that this Mr Gordon had occupied the same bed at an hotel and a lodging-hc,use at Thames Ditton. Several witnesses were called to prove that the petitioner and his wife lived on terms of mutual aff,ction. Dr Dean, Q C., addressed the court for mitigation of damages, anal said that tha co-respondent was in reduced circumstances. The learned judge having summed up the jury retired, and had not delivered their judgment when we went to press. WELLS V. COTTAM, FALSELY CALLED WELLS AND WELLS. . This was a petition for a decree of nullity of marriage on the ground of the undue publication of banns. It was pre sented by the father of the alleged husband against hie son and his son's alleged wife. She had appeared and traversed the allegations in the petition. Mr. M. Chambers, Q C., and Dr. Spinks appeared for the petitioner ; Dr. Wambey and Mr. Reynolds for the respon dent. The jury found a verdict for the petitioner. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, 811A.11.4 MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOO&S. Railways. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. iost.,Sleaf.,andMid.Uo Bristol and Exeter Caledonian _ _ Cork and Bandon Cornwl Do. B Do A A irets no die till 6_13 e.p an. has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. I Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. !Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. , ireat Eastern, Ord. sts Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian et IGreatNorthot Scotland ,Great Northern I Do A stock 1)o l 3 do at. S. an i W. of Ircian ['direst 'Western .... . s Do Str ti al Fria stock Lancashire & Yorkshirt London and lilackvr&li Lon., Bright.ot S. Coasti Lou., Chat., and Dover [Lou. & North Western Lon. & Scr.th Western Man., Shef., a Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do f shares Metropolitan Do Nev Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Feat Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwies • Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.... North London Do New .... North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews.•and Welchpou , Shropshire Union South (South Eastern ISouth Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok., and Wok 1 Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, MG Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Viotoria sta. and Pim Waterford et Mammy West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Ilar.&R.' West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Eeretord Paid.' Closing Business Price. done. I II 9 91 85 67 1241 1231 6 7 35 86 16 17 91 93 110 112 48} 19j 71 71 130 141 100 16: 128 13: 00 0. 71:/ 71 1131 119 71 73 IC5i OO 45 47 116 117 98 09 64i (5i 113 114 1371 i3B 108 110 54 65 25 16 108 i 1003 64} 65a 86 97 126 129 1 2 r 81 83 tut ni 125 130 38 40 58 60 35 h 7 P3l 94 103 105 8 9 117 i 381 1 10} 114 165 170 6 7 3 E r, 105 110 33 36 701- 118& 71 05 44 1161 16 99i 612 I 1121 i 1372 1071 i 33 i 93} FOREIGN MINES. St. John del Rey (lira.), 361 Yudariannitana Ot S. Australia, lira., BANKS. Agra and 31 isterman's (Urn.), 151 Ditto, new, tttt S Anglo Austrian. 7# Anglo-Italian, limited, 5/ Australasia, Ditto, new, M Bank of t,tago, lira., 31 Bank of Queensland (Urn), 19/ 19 Braziliin and Portuguese, lira., 14 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and:China, 41 I Consolidated Bank, Rm., 111 East London, lira., Si English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered.:22i European Bank, lira., 141 Ditto (..-054), 9 Hindustan, china, and Japan (Rini, 35i Liao, new, 22} Imperial Bank of India, china, and Japan, lira., 64 Imperial Ottoman, 17i Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 5/ 6 London and Brazilian aim.), 511 0 . , London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, Ditto, ne London B:nk of Mexico and S. America, lim., 74 1 London Bank of Scotl a nd, lim., liii London and South-Western, 251 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 25 London and County, 751 London Joint Stock, it 1 L ondon and Northern, Bin., 22/ London and 1% estminster, 100/ Merchant Bank, gm , 25i 41 Mercantile and Exchange. Um., 19; Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, Um., 27 Oriental Bank Corporation. 591 60 Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, lim., 13 1 South E sst . ern, ltm ., 71 Union of Australia, 521 MISCELLANEOUS. City Offices, Um., 44 Crystal Palace, 3.1/ Discount Corporation, 161 East India Irrigation and Canal, East Indian Fivanci ti, lira., 5 Eg - yptian Corn. and Trading, urn., Fore-struet Warehouse, lira., 84 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Urn., 7,1 Ditto, uew, 44 Home and C lonia' A ssurance, lira , 6i Imperi land 31 ercantile Credit A sso., lira., ofglii Internat i ona l Financial 7,ociety, 101 6 Joint Stock Discount, lira., 71 Land Securities, I , m , 4 London Financial Association, lira., 284 Ditto. new, 211 M • dras Irr gation and Canal, 14 Milwall Iron Works, 5k National Discount Company, lint, 15 144 National Financial, lira., 54 6 5; Nova Scotia Gold and Land, lice., Ditto, new, 21 ; Ocean 51 arine (Insurance). 224 Oriental Financial, lira., 4 Ottoman FinanciA association, lira., 41 Ottoman Gas, Um 44 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 81 Royal Mail Steam, OA 03 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lira., 74 THE SITN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1864. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A CRIPPLE BEGGING COMPANY.—Five men, named Bar ton, 11J1t, Carr, Dunbar, calling themselves colliers, and Johnson, calling himself a stonemason, were charged before Mr Knox with begging. _ . The prisoners presented a rather singular appearance in the dock, all being supported by crutches, Holt, Dunbar, and Carr each having lost a leg, and Barton and Johnson being also lame. Woddup, one of the Mendicity Society's officers, proved seeing the prisoners going about Park-street, Grosvenor square, all forming one company and begging. Two of the prisoners were acting as spokesman, and telling a pitiful tale of a sad accident which had befallen them in a col- liery, while the others were collecting alms, but the whole of the prisoners begged in turn. The prisoners then surrounded a carriage ar.d begged of the occupants, and Woddup then took them into custody. In answer to Mr Knox, Woddup said Dunbar had been convicted at the Bow •street Police Court, and the others frequently warned by him. Wcgraker, another officer of the Society, said he knew Johnson as a practical beggar. Mr Knox committed Dunbar and Johnson for a month each, and the others for seven days each. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, Market quiet, but steady. Sales probably 6,000 hales. WEEKLY REPORT. There has been a very strong market all week. Sales 46,390; week's spec, 7.340 ; export, 8,990. actual stock, 15,225. Quotations middling. Or leans, 311 ; Mobile, 311 ; Uplands, 311; estimated fair Egyptian, 301; Dhollerah, 231; Surats, 10, 271. Week's imports, 13,006. Estimated stock, 192,400. Extraordinary Charge Against a Married Woman, Yesterday Mr John Humphreys, Middlesex coro ner, resumed an enquiry, at the Three Cups Tavern, High-street, Bow, respecting an death of a newly born female child, which had been thrown away by order of the mother, a married woman. The facts of the case are as follows :—Last Fri day, some boys playing at the Canal Wharf, Mile End, found a box labelled " Borwick'a Baking Powder," and in it the body of the deceased child, which they threw under the roadway. They then carried the box to Mrs Stuart, the wife of a com mercial traveller, residing at Canal Wharf, and showed her the child. She recognised a pair of drawers in which it was 'wrapped as the property of a Mrs Goldsworthy, the wife of a painter and glazier living at No 45, Stepney-green. Mrs Goldsworthy had been recently confined, and had a few days pre viously said to Mrs Stuart that Dr Hance, of the Mile-end-road, had advised her to dig a hole, two feet deep, in the garden, and put the child in it, as a certificate was not necessary, and she had done so. On the night before the boys found the deceased child in the box a Mrs Donohue, who had attended Mrs Goldsworthy, called at Mrs Stuart's house, and she must have passed by the spot where the child was found in the morning. Mrs Stuart put the lid of the box in her pocket, and called on Mrs Gelds worthy and, said, " I had a dream last night that you put the child in a box." The mother started up in bed, and said in afi antic manner, "So help me God you are right. It is true— but it was buried in the garden." Mrs Stuart pulled the lid of the box out of her pocket, and said, "No, it was not. Look here." Mrs Goldsworthy said, " Oh, my God ! a religions brother of Mrs Donohue, took it away." Mrs Stuart then went to Mrs. Donohue, who admitted that on last Thursday night she walked about the streets with the box in her arms, waiting for an opportunity to slip it into some corner. She at last got tired and anxious, and she went to the Globe Bridge, over the Regent's Canal, but she was afraid the splash of the box in the water would excite the suspicion of the passers-by, and she did not know what to do. Ultimately she threw it behind a shed near the bridge. When the deceased child was shown to Dr C. Garman he said that it might have lived for a short time, but he could not speak pcsi- tively of the fact, It arpcared to have been a six or seven months' child. Dr Henry Hance said that on last Sunday week he was called in to attend Mrs Goldsworthy. She was delivered of a female child of between five and six months. The child was born dead. No certi ficate was asked for. The mother asked witness, " What is to be done with this ?" Witness said. "This is a miscarriage. Ido not suppose a certifi cate is necessary. Dig a hole two feet deep in the garden." Witness did not think it was wrong to make such a remark to the mother. It was a com mon practice for medical men to let the budies of stilt-born children be buried in back gardens. The Coroner said that the practice was a most dangerous one. If the bodies of still-born children were allowed to be buried in the back gardens of the houses in the metropolis great facilities would be given for the commission of the crime of infan ticide. Mrs Donohue was then called, and having been cautioned by the Coroner, deposed that her real name was Charlotte Harvey, and that she resided at No. 5, Thomas-street, Stepney. She was a per son living on her means. She was not a nurse. She attended Mrs Goldsworthy as a friend. The de ceased was at first buried in the garden. On the Tuesday the rats came about 'the garden, and the landlord of the h ouse i n w hi c h Mrs Goldsworthy lived said that the body " must be dug up." The body was taken up on the following Thursday. A consultation was held in order to ascertain what was to be done with the body. Mrs Goldsworthy said to withess, " Drop it, into the canal.' Witness had never done suc h a thing before, but she did not think that it was wrong, "as it was a substance that never was human.' Witness was afraid to drop it in the canal. She deposited the box on the path by the side of the canal, in order that the body might be washed away by the morning tide. There was nothing wrong in that. A Juror—Nothlog wrong I Perhaps not in Calcatta, but it certainly is in England. The Coroner said that the coroner's court could not prosecute in such a case. That was a duty for the police. Dr. Hance said that the medical profession wished particularly to know if still-born children required certificates. The Coroner having summed up, The Jury returned the following verdict :—That the deceased child was found dead in a certain box, and the jurors say that the said child was still born; and the said jurors further say that in their opinion great blame attaches to the medical man in this case, as owing to his not having given a certi ficate the whole of this unfortunate occurrence is due. Dr. Hance said that after that verdict the medical P rcfesion would know what to do in the case of still-born children. The proceedings then terminated. As Mrs. Harvey was leaving the court she was arrested on the charge of illegally exposing the dead body. She was instantly removed to the where she w as c h ar ged with B th o e w ab p o o v h e cs o - ff s!n, n at c i e o . Tne prisoner was brought before the magistrate this morning, at the Thames Police Court, and after hearing the evidence given above she was discharged, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. G ODIN OOD MEETING. TUESDAY, July 26. The Stewards' Cup, value 300 sous (handicap), by subscrip tion of 10 Boys each, with 100 added, for three yrs old and upwards ; the winner of a handicap value 200 soya after the publication of the weights (July 21, at 10 a.m.) to carry 71b. of any smaller handicap, 41b atm. T.Y.C. A . g s e s B t 1 1b 21 Lady Ciifden 6 8 12 Lo r d Clifden 4 8 12 Exchequer Johnny Armstrong 5 8 10 , Twilight Welland 5 8 8 Argonaut Man at Arms Gem of the Sea Bloc Mantle 4 8 61 Vivid 4 8 0 Neophyte Tippler Fantail tleurlys 5 8 0 Queen of Trumps 6 8 0 Sir Roger Birch Broom . 3 7 13 Molly Carew 3 7 11 Early Purl Alchymist 5 7 11 Gladstone Brick Saccharometer Biondella Durham 3 7 8 C roc het horse .. • • 6 7 8 Queen of Spain. •• • 5 7 8 Moulsey Historian Bertha . _.. King of Utopia B a ldwin S o apstone Al m ack Lutra Cadiz Dolphin 4 7 6 Marigold ...... Stockowner Old Orange Girl Vabalathus Fiancee Linda 3 7 6 Newchurch The tercrCiphteiosnofifellsd sous e ( a li c a h n , di f c o a r p) three Yrs old and upwards; the winner of the Goodwood Stakes, the Goodwood Cup, the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood, or any handicap value 200 sovs after the publication of the \eights (July 21, at 19 a.m.) to carry 71b, of any smaller aandicap, 41b extra. Craven courae. Age st lb Master Richard 3 7 4 King George .. 3 7 3 The Warrior .. 3 7 3 Planet Antoinette. 3 7 3 Beadle .... 3 7 3 Flying Fish 4 7 3 Crisis Mut zzin Peignoir... 5 7 0 Trunrm Avondale . 4 7 0 Greenland . 3 6 13 War Dance .. 3 6 13 Myrtle . Beatrix Teddy Gratitude . 4 6 12 Bayaid .. 3 6 12 Idler Ana Verbena...... Wild Thy= 3 6 10 Skeffington .. 3 6 10 King John. 3 6 9 Finesse Teneriffe . 3 6 8 Lady of Coterham 3 6 8 Olivia Echo Lucky Star Miss Pick)) Sheridan Brother to Rubini 3 6 2 Lytham Diomed • 3 6 '2 Clairyoyonte .. 3 6 1 Savanna). Menace 3 5 13 Bold Houghton Balornoek Blue 841 .. 3 5 10 Madcap 3 5 7 Blackrock ---- Age st lb Stradella Lord Clifden .. 4 8 12 Johnny Armstrong 5 8 9 Exchequer 5 8 9 East Lancashire Man at Arms Vivid Blue Mantle 4 8 4 Catch 'm Alive 5 8 2 Fantail Aurelian Despair Brick Tippler Gladstone Onesander Lady Clifden 6 7 10 Magnum Bonum Early Purl Little Stag.. 3 7 9 Black Deer .. 4 7 9 Birch Broom 3 7 7 Sir Roger 3 7 7 Old Orange Girl .. 4 7 7 B Ald win 4 7 7 King of Utopia 4 7 7 Queeri.of Trumps 5 7 7 Durham 3 7 6 Leonora 6 7 6 Historian Accident .. Newchurch Molly Carew 3 7 4 Summerside Jessie 3 7 2 Crotchet horse Canzonette Valiant Age st lb Suspicion Avondale Privateer Flying P s h 4 6 12 War Danze .. 3 6 10 Mo•alsey. . 3 6 9 Muezzin. 4 6 9 Crisis ... Lady 01 Coverham 3 6 7 Idler ... . Verbena ally Antoinett e 3 6 7 Gratitude Lady Hylda 3 6 6 Pen Lucky Sttr Mies Pickle .. 3 6 5 Olivia..., 3 6 5 Sl*ffington Merry Maid Echo Finesse .. 3 6 2 EsPerance , .. Gaza Ladra 3 6 0 Sheridan . Menace Clairvoyante 3 6 12 myrtilus Savannah . 3 5 11 Thorned Balornock Quarantine Bold Houghton.... 3 5 9 Little Savage 3 5 7 Blue Ball Madcap..,. Black Rock 3 5 7 YORK MEETLiG. TUESDAY, August 23. Weights for the,Great Ebor Esodicap. Two miles. Age st lb Fairwater Caller Ou Lioness Limosina Oldrainster East Lancashire Sea King . 1 Balh4ro Welcome Despair ..... Tippler Tourist Old Orange Girl Brick Touch-and-go .... 4 7 a Beverley Port Royal Early Purl.... . Royal Stag Armagnac 4 7 3 King Charming Revolver Donnybrook Drummer Boy • Thalestris Bradamante 3 6 10 Cripple The Beaver .. 3 6 7 Age et lb The Clown Odine 4 6 6 (bilk' Callum 3 6 5 Rag!al .. 4 6 5 Hymaium Lord wetland Grevile Mousey 3 6 2 Guerila , . VeniKin The .'artar Dr Baoke Wha.fiuger Cour:ersign Siva Casty Espie 3 5 12 Surat 3 5 11 Tooi-rooi Priva:eer , Whitsthorn 1 Sti rr up Cup .. 3 5 10 Lady de Trafford.. 3 5 9 Higtflyer'a dam C 3 5 8 Figaro Alabama Doable First 3 5 7 Nen° 3 5 7 I Isholeus .. 3 5 7 SOUTHAMPTON RACES.—THUB.SDLY. The Stand Plate (Handicap) of 50 sovs, added to a Sweep stakes of 5 sovs each, 2ft (to the lund), for all ages ; winners extra. T.Y.C. Mr Wodson's De:rfoot, 4 yrs, Set 41b (Hibbard) 1 Mr W. Nelson's Gamecock. 6yre, Bst 71b • . (S. Adams) 2 Mr H. I'. Delme's North End, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (in. 71b ex ) (S. Mordan) 3 The following also ran : — Overstone, Clementi, Vision, Syren, and Lady Bohan. Betting-3 to 1 agst Gamecock, 4to 1 agst Overstone, 9 to 2 agat Despair, 6 to 1 agat North End, 7 to 1 agst Lady Bohm], 8 to 1 agst Clementi, Won easily by a length; a neck between second and third. Vision was fourth, Syren fifth, Clementi sixth, and Overstone last, beaten eft, ,), Bst llib e ach, with 40 added, for two -Bst 41b ; selling allow ances.Thyer ..ol d Stewards's;H colts, Half l f Plate a l n 8 8s 71b; 11 0 e7 f .11 5 b s ; o fillies,v Mr Hartley's Eugenie, (not to be sold) Bst 91b (inc. 51b ex.) ....... . ... ._ ... .. ..................... (Payne) 1 a fourth Mr 1-L GOllter'S Ada (t 100), 7, t (S Mordan) 2 (Cannon) 3 J. Adams) 4 Mr Elphick's Parchment colt, (£t00), Sat ..(C. Martin) 5 Prince Soltykoff's Rapid (C 1 00), Bst (Hibberd) 6 Betting-7 to 4 opt Eugeni a , cMarptSaairl Di e o ls s ' s' B s i ß ra e g e u e e tta (l (7l ' oo) 3 to 1 agst Ada, 7 to 2 agst Rosette, 6 to 1 agst Biragu, a. length; the same between the se • rd b ; y a h b a a lf d Th e s o uth Hampshire Stakes (Handicap) of 15 sous each, 10 ft, and 5 if declared ; winners extra. About a mile c 0 nd Won an d easil y th i m r an j d . H. ahalf. Wyn dham's Innell an, 6 yrs, Bst 121 b 3113 ........ (F (H or i d bb h e a r ra d ) ) 5 1 The Scurry Handicap Stakes of 3 soya each, with 30 added, for three-yr-olds and T.Y.C. upwardysi:, Mr Wodson's Deerfoot, 4 Yrs, 9at llb . (Atkinson) 2 Mr W. Coney's Bonny . Mr W. G. Craven's Llangollen, 3 Merl, 3 yrs, 7st .... (S. Adams) 3 Mr Brayley's Black Ifriar, 3 yrs,7„ 21b (Canuon) 4 Mrs Osbaldeston's Russ, 4 yrs, 7st 111b,,,,(8 Mordan) 6 7 to 4 agst Daerfoot, 5 to 2 Mr Whiteside's Dodo, 4 yrs, obt Betting— agst Bonnie Glen, 4 to 1 each ago!, Llangollen and Black Friar. A good race won by a neck; half a length between se cond and third ; a bad fourth. each, with .. The Town Stakes of ,3 soya ith 2 , added; weight for age, ani.! selling allowa nces. Capt. Christie's Corset, 3 yt, % „ t. 10), 6st 3 lar 4 Mr J. Ward's Knight Toni ) ) lb .. (S. Mordan) 1 . winners Rogers)6 io 1 e b x w t ri . yrs (£10), Tat 21b 3 (S. Adams) 2 Croat Mr Brayley's Victor ia yrs 3 (£4O), 6st 81b (Murray) 3 Corset rati and Knight Tem Betting-6 to 4 each plar, 4to 1 agst Victoria Cross. . Won by half a length ; a bad third, Dareful bolted. The winner was bought by Mr Chamberlayne for 85 guineas. Mr. Brayley claimed Inlght Templar, The Welter Handicap did not produc(, a race, -----• Daeraecfhul sal:sot with 40 added, for The Nurse 2 ry . CHE STBRFIBL 0 MEETING. Mr O sb one • s Terror, Bst 31b Diernne, jun) 1 Mr Osborne's Dubiety, Tat 121 b ............. (Carroll) 2 Mr Barber's Fan, 7st .......... . ........... (Britton) 3 Betting-6 to 4on Terror, 9to 4 apt D yr.oids. Handicap Toi Three-quarters es.ocilr each,ters of a mile, übiety, and 5 to 5 ° 85" 2 added.g.B(tj M. toGa Macbeth, a bi me h tsh a h n , a d aw il p l 7 1 agst Fan. Won by two lengths; bad third. tbs between secon d an The Chatsworth Stakes of stake of 5 says each. Nearly Ira. Cfur. Mr T. Cliff's Sandford, 4 yrs, ....... (Ward) 4 7st_l b 2lb Mr Barber's Macbeth, 3 yrs, 6st t! ...... .... (Britton) 2 Mr R. Chilton's Little Duchess,. ° Yrs, Gat 131 b (Carroll) 3 Mr Barber's Helen, 3 yrs, 6st 6 1 D3 ...... Betting—Even on Sandford, to 2 agst Little Duchess, Won by a head ; three levg thrd ; bad fourth. The Cavendish Stakes of 25 sovs added to a sweepstakes o 3 soya each, for 2 and 3-yr -olds. Half a mile, Terror, 7st 71b (in 71b ex) .................. (Ward) t 1 Seaboy, Sst 51b ................... (J. Grimshaw) t 2 Lady of the drove, Bst :ill) ........... ..... (Britton) 3 The following also ran :—E - ss Bouquet s Cutaway, an d Inverness. Betting-5 to 2 agst Terror, 3to 1 agst Saaboy, and 4to 1 each agst Inverness and Cutaway. A dead heat—Lady of the Grope was beaten four lengths from the dead heaters. Deciding heat—Terror beat Sea boy. The Scarsdale Stakes of 25 sous. added to a sweepstakes of 3 goys each. About half a mile. Rosebud, 7st 111 b (J Grimshaw) 1 Sister to Bombay, sst 121 b (Carroll) 2 Brother Sam, Bst 111 b (James) 3 Betting-3 to 1 agst Rosebud. There was no advance upon the selling price. The Innkeepers' Stakes (handicap), of 3 soya each, with 25 added, for all ages. Half a mile. Gaily (Carroll) 1 Heeper Cutler Barnby Letting-5 to 4 agst Heeper, 2to 1 agst Cutler, and 3to agst Gaily. Won by a length ; length and a half between second and third. SCRITCHINGS.— July 15, at 9 a.m. Despair, Queen of Trumps. Moulsey, Gipay Girl, Effigy, and Lutra out of their Nottingham engagements, and Prescription out of the Citizens' Plato at Winchester. 16th, at 12 30 p.m. all Marquis of Hastings's horses out of their Nottingham engagements; 2 15 p.m. Victoria Cross out of the Welter Handicap at Southampton; and at 5 25 p.m. Athelstane out of the Grange Park Stakes at Winchester. 18th, at a.m. Lady Evelyn filly out of the Notanghainsbire Handi. cap ; and at 5 20 p.m. Deerfoot out of the Welter Handicap at Southampton. MANCHESTER BE ETING —YESTERDAY. GOODWOOD STAKES. 7 to 4 agst Thalestris (taken) 100 to 12 agst Stanton (taken) 10 to 1 agat Blondin (taken) 14 to 1 agat Canzonette (taken) GOODWOOD CUE. 4to 1 agat Dollar (taken) 6to 1 agst Claremont (taken freely) 6to 1 agst Scottish Chief (taken) 100 to 8 agst Blithfield (offered) AQUATICS. DOGGETT'S COAT AND BADGE. The following are the names of the six young watermen who are to contend on Monday, August 1, in the old established wager, for the livery and badge presented in 1715 by Mr Thomas Doggett, a famous comedian, in corn. memoration of the accession of the family of her present Majesty to the throne of Great Britain : Frank Kilsby, Old Barge House Thomas Wittington, Legal Quays John H. Darby, Surrey Canal David Coombes, Horselydown James Groves, Horselydown George Charles Doo, Mortlake. The first prize will be the livery and badge and Ll is presented by the Fishmongers' Company. The second and third prizes are the gifts of the late Sir William Joliffe, left by will, and arising from the interest on £260 17s 3d 3 per Cent Reduced (formerly £200) South Sea Stock, viz., and of the said interest—L4 17s. 9d and £2lBs 9d. The fourth prize will be D. lls 6d, and the last two £1 is each (pro vided the whole course is rowed), being the gifts of the Fishmonger's Company. The race will start about 1 o'clock, and the course will be from London-bridge to the Swan at Chelsea. SWIMMING, SWIMMING MATCH IN THE SERPENTINE. An interesting race took place across the Serpentine and back on Wednesday evening, between a few lovers of the art in which Leander was so proficient. As in the case of that famous swimmer, the object of each competitor was to gratify the girl of his choice, the match being for a "sweetheart's prize"—an elegant gold necklet and locket, presented by the London Swimming Club. Some of the most expert members of this society entered, and were han dicapped according to their proficiency by Mr Payton, the secretary. Evens, the tallest and strongest looking of all—a fine young man, over six feet high—plunged in first, and after swimming about 15 yards was followed by a short, slim comrade, named Bartlett, who showed his skill by rapidly overtaking and passing his opponent, when half away across. Ploughing their way swiftly after them were the rest of the competitors, who left the starting point thus :—Fry, two or three seconds after Bartlett ; Stuart next, and the best swimmers, Jones and Williams, last. When about four minutes had elapsed from the time Evans started, Bartlett was seen to reach the opposite shore first, and to plunge in again for the return journey. His rivals being by this time close behind him, the race became ex citing to the hundreds who awaited the result. Encouraged to fresh exertion, the competitors persevered, swimming in the most plucky style. The rear division in vain tried their utmost to pass young Bartlett. Putting on a final spurt, amid enthusiastic cheers, he arrived first at the south bank, and was declared winner of the " Sweetheart's prin." Fry came in second, and was immediately followed by Jones, Williams, Stuart ; and, though last 'not least, Evans. A few of those adepts, as well as about 50 other amateurs, are to swim this (Friday) evening for the One-mile Amateur Champion's Cup, given by the proprietor of the Sporting Pilot. The course for the race is to be a mile in the Thanes. from the Dung wharf to Putney aqueduct. A steamboat (from which the men are to stait) will leave London-bridge at half-past 4, and will call at all the * piers up to Putney. The Recent Elopement and Marriag,'e in High Life. (From the Queen of this day.) The West-end season of eighteen hundred and sixty-four has been generally admitted to be one of the most brilliant of modern years, consideri eg the retirement of the Sovereign from public life. Dur ing its continuance we have had balls, dimmers, bazaars, amateur plays, concerts, reviews, and every species of amusement which fancy could devise for the entertainment of the heir to the throne and his consort, as well as the fashionable world. A sensa tional wind-up alone was needed ; and as the readers of the Queen, we imagine, will like to be made ac quainted with the fullest particulars of an event which, from the rank of the contracting parties, must become one of historic interest, we make no apology for giving the following narrative :—Among the English aristocracy there is no house so remark able for the manner in which it has interwoven itself with the great families of the land as the Pagets, and which may in soma measure be ac counted for by their connection with the Court, which has been of many years standing. Indeed, it has been said of them that the men were all heroes and the women angels. Around them romance has shed its halo, from the first Marquis of Anglesey down to his granddaughter, who, by her marriage on Saturday, became the Marchioness of Hastings. Such an alliance at one time would have created no more sensation than an ordinary marriage in high life. The announcement would have appeared in our columns; and we should have done justice to the beauty of the bride, and the exquisite texture of her dress, enumerated her bridesmaids, and given details of their costumes, and concluded by stating that the happy pair left town for Dinning ton-park, accompanied by the best wishes of their friends for their future happiness. All this trouble has been spared us. We should premise our story by stating that, among the belles of our English aristocracy, Low of late years croatod ouch a fiellsrs. don on her debut as Lady Florence Paget, the youngest daughter of the Marquis of Anglesey. Gifted with the hereditary beauty of her family to a rare extent, her petite figure and dove-like eyes canted her at once to become " the rage of the park, the ball-room, the opera, and the croquet lawn." These personal charms were not a little enhanced by the unaffectedness of her manner and extreme good nature, which caused her to become the idol of her father and the household. Deprived of a mother's care at an early age, her education was hardly so advanced as might have been anticipated from her sphere in life, and she seemed to have made Diana Vernon her model. In her intercourse with society, among the many suitors by whom she was eurrounded was Mr Chaplin, a gentleman possessed of estates in Lincolnshire which produce him a rental of nearly torty thousand pounds per annum, and endowed with every quality to render him a:desirable parti. Their intimacy was such last year that rumours of their engagement appeared in the papers, only to be contradicted, and Mr Chaplin proceeded on a shooting tour in India with his friend Sir Frederick Johnstone. Returning in May, he again met Lady Florence daily, and as a proof that his attachment was undiminished he pro posed to her, and was accepted. The match was one which gave the greatest satisfaction to the Marquis of Anglesey and all his family, for Mr. Chaplin was a young man of great promise, and by his ample means could give Lady Florence a position in society which she had a right to look for, although she could bring him no dowry. The announcement of the engagement appeared in the Morning Post, and also in our columns, and the happy pair were seen driving together in the parks, in the same box at the opera, and enjoying each other's society in the same manner as fiancees are in the habit of doing. At a fashionable jeweller's at the West-end Lady Florence's jewels, the gift of Mr. Chaplin, were displayed to all comers, and the trotseau engaged the attention of the first modistes. Presents came into her in abundance, the servants even eubscribing for a silver teapot, sugar basin, and cream jug for her. The wedding was fixed for the second week in August, and Mr. Chaplin had made the necessary preparations to receive his bride. But it was not to be, although no later than Friday night she occupied Mr. Chaplin's box at the opera, and . sat between him and her really future husband, the Marquis of Hastings, of whom we may remark that his attachment to her had been notorious, and it was known that he meant to have proposed to her, if Mr. Chaplin had not taken time by the forelock. Addicted as his lordship is to the turf and its con genial accessories, it was imagined Lady Florence's image would soon be erased from his mind, but it seemed otherwise, and that, while on the best of terms with Mr Chaplin, he was only concealing his play, for on the following morning (Saturday) that he had been at the opera with him and her ladyship he found himself with the latter at St George's Church, Hanover-square, and they were united for better or worse. As much curiosity prevails to know how the marriage was arranged, we may state that Lady Florence, on Saturday morning, left the St George's Hotel, in Albemarle-street, where she had been staying during tie season, in her father's brougham, telling the porter, if Mr Chaplin called, she should not return until two o'clock. She then was driven to Marshall and Suellgrove's, in Oxford- street, and leaving the carriage at one entrance was met at the other by the s:ster of the Marquis of Hastings, who, engaging a hack cab, drove her at once to St George's, where the Marquis of Hastings, accompanied by Mr and Mrs Granville (whose mar riage we recorded only a fortnight back), Mr Blak€' Mr Wilkinson, and Mr F. Wombwell were in wait ing. Immediately after the ceremony had been performed, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hest ir gs repaired to Mr Granville's lodgings in St. James's-place, from whence, after the bride had communicated by letter to Mr Chaplin and her family her change of mind, they started per special train for Donnington-park to spend the honeymoon. AtPeterbarough station they were met by several of their friends, who were not a little surprised to find Lady Florence in company with the marquis instead of Mr Chaplin. To show that the marriage could not have been an impromptu affair, as some people imagine, the fact of the happy couple being received at the station by his tenantry, who had erected no less than nine triumphal arches trimmed with flowers, at once discloses. It is need less to add that Mr Caplin feels very ranch the slight that has been put upon him, but his feelings are in some measure consoled by the assurance of his friends that it is all for the best. The Marquis of Anglesey is also much distressed at the affair, for the alliance with Mr Chaplin had his consent and approbation. Her ladyship's brother and brother-in-law, Lords Uxbridge and Winchelsea. heard of the marriage by accident at the pigeon shooting match at Hornsey In conclusion, we may state that since Lady Adele Villiers eloped with Captain Ibbetson, of the 11th Hussars, at Brighton, no similar occurrence has created such a profound sensation among the West• end Mothers and Daughters. Raising of the Blockade of the German Ports, (From a Supplement to the Gazette of Tuesday ) FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 21. Notification of the Raising of the Blockade of the German Ports in the Baltic, ice. It is hereby notified that Earl Russell, her Maje,sty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has re ceived from her Majesty's Minister at Copenhagen (Sir A. Paget), a telegram, stating that the blockades of ports in the Baltic are to be raised during the suspension of arms which has been concluded between Denmark and the German Powers. The following is a copy of the teleg to : ra m above referred July 20, 10 pan. yesterday to commence at at Chris tianfAeldA,l noon to-morrow, 20 , h. an d cease on 31st, at midnight. All establishingi ii ta t y arms, blockades g i ve n up. Ar mies and fleets to kee p their respec tive positions. N O communication allowed between the )Ties occupied by respective armies.,, ' territa Accounts have been received from Warsaw and other parts of Poland of consitierable damage having been caused by storms. In many places the hailstones were as large as pigeons' eggs, DIPERILL PARLIAMENT ROUSE OF COMMONS.—This Day. The speaker did not take the chair until 25 minutes to one on account of there not being 40 members present until that hour. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following railway bills were read a third time and passed :—Lancashire and Yorkshire (Blackburn, szc„ lines) —Caledonian (Glasgow Harbour) — llfracombo—Lancashi re Union—London, Brighton, and South Coast—Rhymney (Extensions)—Rickmansworth, Amersham, and Chesharu —West Sussex Junction—Reciruth and Falmouth Junc tion—Kilkenny Junction —Much Wenlock and Severn Junction and Wenlock Railway, The Stock District Water and the Sheila' Charities Bills were also passed, Arden's Estate 13111 was read a second time. CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE BILL. On the order cf the day for the consideration of this bill, as amended, Mr P. HENNESSY moved the addition of the following clause, "Any person, being a natural born subject cf her Majesty, who may be desirous of being appointed an assis tant in the said forces, shall be admitted to b e examined as a candidate for such appointment." The bill as it at pre. sent stood entirely put an end to the competitive system ; and, although it had been said by the Secretary of State for India that the system of open competition would, to a certain extent, remain, he preferred to have it expressly laid down in the bill. Tho hon. gentleman then read an extract from the Lancet, which stated that the naea.. sure, if passed in its present form, would entirely destroy the efficiency of the East Indian medical service. Col. SYKES seconded the amendment, He did not see how the right hon. gentleman the Secretary for India could object to the words of the proposed addition to the bill be cause they were part of the Queen's proclamation to the people of India. The refusal of the clause was, in effect, to refuse that to the people of India Which had been pro mised them by her Majesty's proclamation. Sit C. WOOD said it was a mistake for any one to suppose that he was opposed to the competitive system, because he was the very person who introduced it. The bill, therefore, was not to abolish the competition, but it was to enable him to form a staff medical corp for India from amongst those medical officers in her Majesty's army ..ho it by competitive service. The Indian Medical Service was at present very deficient, and he be- lieved that the Queen's army would be benditted by that which he now proposed to do. He did not in the slightest degree wish to interfere with the regulations at presen in existence in the Queen's army. Col. NORTH was in favour of the amendment. Mr BRADY said it was entirely owing to the illiberal treatment the medical men received that there was any,diffi culty in the matter, The medical man's pay was much less than that of other officers of a similar position, and whilst that state of things existed, it was impossible to suppose that gentlemen would enter upon duties of great responsi bility without being adequately remunerated for the labour. The position of the surgeon in the army, as far as re.nk was concerned, was that of a captain whilst he only reached the pay of a lieutenant. Sir C. WOOD said that that state of things had been altered by advices taken out by the last mail. Sir J. TRELAWNY opposed the amendment. A division then took place, when there appeared— For the amendment Against it Majority against the amendment —2o The amendment was negatived, and the bill ordered to be road a third time on Monday. FORTIFICATIONS (EXPENSES) BILL. This bill was ordered for a third reading on Monday. CRANBOUB,NE - STRE ET BILL. This bill passed through committee. PILOTAGE ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL.: The bill was road a third time and passed. BANK POST BILLS (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. POOR REMOVAL BILL, This bill was read a third time and passed. STAMP DUTIES ACT (1864) Bill. This bill was read a third time and passed. EAST INDIA REVENUE ACCOUNT. Mr. MASSEY brought up the report, which was agreed RAILWAY (IRELAND) ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to. DRAINAGE, &c. (IRELAND) BILL. The Lords' amendments to this bill were also considered and agreed to. DEFENCE ACT AMENDMENE BILL. This bill passed through committee. The sitting was then suspended. Bank of England Return,•--Last Evening. -41%.------- An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 20th day of July, 1864: ISSUE DEP/OM:SENT. , - Notea labued .......X27,106,250 Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3.634,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 12,456,20 Silver Bullion .... £27,106,250 ( 1 BANIUNG DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' Capi- Government Seen tal X 14.55.3,000 rities (including Rest Public Deposits (in- flinty) £11,092,125 eluding Exche. Other Securities 19,281,960 quer, Savings' Notes Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver 715,:111 missiouers of Na- Coln tional Debt, and Dividend Ac counts) 4,462,490 Other Deposits 13,108,676 Seven Day and other Bills 607,133 £27,1()6,250 £33,L00,091 ' 136,500.001 MILLER. Chief Cashier. 21, 1864. SHIPPING-THIS DAY, LONDON, July 22.—Wind this day at noon—South- West; light breeze and cloudy weather. PonTsmouTn, July 21.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Racer, for Heligoland. OFP FIJI:MOUTH, July 20.—Arrived— Dorothea, from Bahia from Bremen. SWANSEA, July 21.—Wind calm.—Arri red—Ocean, from Gibraltar. CLYDE, July 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—lda, from Havannah. GLOUCESTER, July 20.—Arrived—Wind S.W.—Deer foot, from New York. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAM) GRAVESEND, Friday Morni ng: Arrived, July 21—Fanny Fern, from Nevis—Lady Ann, from Melbourne--Saturnus, from Lannceston—Albatross, from Husum—Concordia and Caroline Stainton, from Guernsey—Coleroon, from Bombay—Maria, from Sod erham Neptunus, from Husum—lsabella Miller, from Riga— Queen of the Clippers, from Nassau—Maria, from St. Petersburg —Lubbcgina, from Groningen- 7 -Z vora, from Gothenburg. _ _ Arrived, - July 22.—James and Deptford, from Riga— Isabella and Mary, iJrocus, Millians, and Sex, all from Cronstadt—Speranza, from Gothenbur,t —Glimpse and. Rebecca, from Nassau—Lady Clarke, from Quebec—Fore runner, from Yokohama—Thetis, from New York—Si, James, from Mauritius—Lord Brougham, from Calcutta— Harrison Leib, from Dominica—Fauna, from Soderham. DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed July 21—Berkly, from Kurracheo Corinthe, from Spain, both for Shields—North, of Liverpool, from the west, for the north—Avoe. from the nor t h, far the west— Porehe, from Calcutta—Alexandria, from Colombo—Mariz burg, from Cochin—Eastward Ho, from Patras—Forest Queen, from Pugwash—Jolly, from .Alexandria—Guide, from Grenada—Rebecca, from Nassau—Aurora, from Porto Rico—Mary Blake, from St Lucia—Daniel Webster, from New York—all for London. Three Russian men-of •war were at the back of the Good win on the 21st. THE LATE T. P. COOKE.—Thomas Potter Cooke, Esq., of Thurlow-square, Brompton, and St. Yin. cent Villa, Ryde, Isle of Wight — w ho died on the 4th of April last, at an advanc ed age, has left personalty estimated at £25,0 00 , b esides freehold estates. His will was executed in February last, and a codicil t h e month following, being a fey/days befor e his d eath. The exe eutors are the Rev.W. S. H. mea dows, M.A., Vicar of Chig_ well; Warren Pugh,Esq., Bloomsbury -place ; and Augustine Sargood, Esq., Temple, barrister. To his daughter, Mrs Cumsaing, who was r esiding with him, he ha s left his real estate, and the resid ue of his personalt y . T here are a num ber of small lega cies to personal friends ; a mongst them are he names ed i of editor Benjamin Webster, Joh n B uc k stone ; H enry Wills, .411 the Year R ound ; Bowles, editor t to ofalig naa T zi' o s t i% he re :u sP t a k l e, erw' Paris. T o eac h o f hi s execu tors £lOO. who has lon g lived in the family, h e leaves an annuity of 36. Alllegacies to be paid free of very duty. The r e is one prominent bequest in his will. li e leaves to the R oya l Dramatic College a sum of £2OOO, in perpetuity, for a prize for the best drama on a nautical or national subject, to be callod " T. P. Cooke's Nautical or National Dramatic Prize," to be competed for ; and suggests that on the 23rd day of April, the birthday of " our immortal dramatic poet Shakspeare, and which is my own natal day also," a public holiday or treat shall be given to the pensioners of the college ; and, after the toast of the day—" To the memory of the immor tal bard Shakspere"—shall havo been duly honoured, the terms and conditions of this "my gift" s hall be read, and announcement made of the s uccessful candi date, as well as of the title of the piece , and the theatre at which it is to be performed; and bequ eaths a further sum of £l,OOO for this purpose.—illustrated London _News, ACCIDENT IN CHEAPSIDE.—Last evening Shortly after 9 o'clock, a serious collision occurred between a cab and a spring cart in Cheapside. The hind wheels of a cab were carried away : the spring cart was turned over, and its occupants, three persons, a W Olll4ll and two men, were shot into the roadway, one of the men had his right leg broken, the second was considerably shaken ; the womtu escaped with very slight injury. The Army Medical Service, Sir C. Wood alleged on Tuesday night last in the House of Commons that competitive examinations for the Army Medical Service had entirely failed, and has introduced an Indian Medical Service Bill which would do away with competitive examinations. We do not hesitate to declare that Sir C. Wood has been completely misinformed on this subject, and has entirely misled the house. It will be neces sary for him to state what he means by the complete failure of the competitive examinations for the Army Medical Ser vice. It will then be apparent that they have fully suc ceeded. They succeeded in supplying during the first years of their establishment, and under the directorship of Mr Alexander, a full, continuous, and increasing stream of high-class candidates. They succeeded in furnishing to the army a supply of men of precisely the quality and stamp that were wanted—men fit to be intrusted with the sole re sponsibility of the health and lives of men and officers. Presently, when by tampering with the Warrant of 1858 for the English army, by four years delay in applying the Queen's Warrant to the Indian army, the Government had rendered the Army Medical Service so unpopular that few men—except those who were hopeless, helpless, and ill• educated—would enter the service, the examinations were successful in passing through all who were at all competent persons; and were also successful in keeping back certain persons who manifested the grossest ignorance and most dangerous incapacity, but who otherwise would have been admitted into the service, since they were legally qualified ---men who proposed to plunge a trocar into the breast of a suckling woman, who could not apply a splint, who ope rated on the dead body so unskilfully that had the subject been living they must have killed him on the spot. The examinations have been highly successful, and Sir Charles Wood could not have consulted either the civil profession or the army medical service, much Ws the examiners them selves, before he made the statement of their complete failure. They have only been a little too successful for the Government ; they have interposed a che'k on the pro ceedings of the Horse Guards by affording an index of the depression in the quality and the number of the candi dates which the uniform harshness, morgue, and , in justice of that departme nt have caused. They ro pose, then, to do away with competitive examine tions—to destroy the index and silence the tell. tale. An attempt was made to induce the General Medical Council to aisapprove these competitive examinations by working upon the pride of the corporations, who were told that these secondary examinations were offensive to their dignity. But after inquiring a little into the working of the matter, and seeing how successful they were in passing through all fit applicants, and only filtering off a sediment of eo coarse a quality as would shame th e service and peril the welfare of the soldiers, the council decided unanimously in favour of them. What, then, can Sir Charles Wood mean by de claring that the examinations have failed ? He cannot mean that they have been unfairly conducted, or too stringent, or that they have failed to distinguish the good from bad. No one doubts that they furnish, in the case of medical officers, a fair and perfect test of merit and fitness at the time of entering the service. He means that the military authorities are shifting on to this useful part of the machinery the blame which is, in fact, entirely and solely due to their arbitrary proceedings and the insufficient inducement which the medical service of the army offers. Like bad conductors, they want to smash the index. It is no doubt an ingenious device to cover the injury which they have done and are doing to the army ; but it can only serve to increase the defect in the quality of the candidates, and to damage the efficiencylof the service by admitting indiscriminately those whom the competitive examinations would have rejected and such as aro utterly inefficient. If the House of Com mons would take the trouble to investigate the question at all, we feel assured that it would never consent to abolish competitive examinations for the Army Medical Depart ment, which are unanimously approved in the medical pro fession and by army medical officers. Mr Longfield and Mr Hennessy have rendered a public service in offering a spirited opposition to the progress of the India Medical Service Bill in its present form, end we hope that Mr Hen nessy will further master the details of the question, which will show how greatly such an opposition would be opposed to the best interests of the army.— id id REFRESENTATION OF KINCARDINESHIRE. General Sir H. Arbuthnott having intimated his intention to vacate his seat at the end of the present Par liament, Mr J. D. 'Nicoll, of Ballogie, has intimated his intention of standing as candidate for the representation at the next election in the Liberal interest. The present member has represented the county for nearly 40 years, and his principal reason for refiring is on account of in creasing deafness, which prevents him from paying all the attention he could desire to his Parliamentary duties. Share 3.14.1 11.15.1